In one club we lost this racing scene to mismanagement and surprisingly enough the "good fun" days were almost immediately gone. And interestingly enough in a club with about 100 boats on its parking for 15 to 20 years and an active club racing fleet of ONLY 10 boats, it collapsed to 50 to 60 boats in parking and no racing fleet within some 2 to 3 years. In effect is lost 40 to 50 boats when only 10 boats quite club racing. It has not recovered yet and probably won't soon.
Interesting observations. I wouldn't have picked such a dramatic effect. I know we are getting a bit off the topic but what do you mean by mis-management? What sorts of things happened and how did you (I mean as a group) turn the situation around?
